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What you describe is the cloud image. You can dd it to your hard drive and it should work as is (initial password will be displayed on first boot). As for Debi
by vbernat 4y ago
What you describe is the cloud image. You can dd it to your hard drive and it should work as is (initial password will be displayed on first boot).
As for Debian, the slowness comes mostly for fsync calls I think. You should be able to use eatmydata to avoid this. See: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_installations_using_eatmydata.html https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_insta...
- vbezhenar 4y agoYeah, I know, my point is that ordinary installer should do the same with ordinary installer UI rather than trying to install every deb package over and over again, running its pre/post scripts, etc. What's the point? It should be deterministic anyway.